node-nmap (the vendored library, not our code) treats ANY stderr
output from the nmap binary as a fatal scan error -- including nmap's
own harmless RTT-calibration warning ("RTTVAR has grown to over N
seconds, decreasing to M"), which it prints *during* a scan that goes
on to complete normally. That meant a real, successful scan (valid XML
already sitting in the library's rawData) got discarded and reported
as a failed run with zero hosts discovered -- not just log noise as
initially assumed.
Recover in our own plugin code by detecting this specific known-benign
message and manually re-running node-nmap's own XML-parse-then-complete
path when there's actually output to parse. A genuine parse failure or
any other error message still rejects exactly as before -- this only
widens the recovery path.
Generalize the half-built discovery plugins into a real plugin system: plugin
TYPES (the plugins/<category>/<type>.js modules with manifests) and loadable,
configurable, multi-copy plugin INSTANCES (PluginInstance ORM model) managed
from a dedicated /plugins page and /api/plugins API, with per-instance secrets
in OpenBao at secret/plugins/<id>/conf.
- plugin_registry.js: getTypes/getModule/splitConfig/mask + required-field helpers
- PluginInstance model (Sequelize): id/pluginType/category/name/slug(unique)/
enabled/cron/config(json, non-secret)/lastRun*; registered in models/index.js
- plugin_secrets.js: read/write/remove/mergeForRun over @simpleworkjs/bao-conf
- scheduler.js: schedules from the DB registry; per-instance stable BullMQ
JobScheduler ids (plugin:<id>) for load/unload; legacy migration from
conf.discovery.plugins on first boot (idempotent, empty-table-guarded)
- api_plugins.js (replaces routes/plugins.js): types/list/get/create/update/
secrets/test/load/unload/run/delete/runs; admin-gated; secrets always masked
- /plugins page (plugins.ejs) + nav; Agents & Scheduler tab removed from
/directory; /docs/agents aliased to /docs/plugins
- proxmox/unifi/nmap gained manifests (configSchema/validate/run alias)
- tests/plugins.test.js: registry unit + plugin_secrets (mocked bao-conf) +
PluginInstance model round-trip/unique-slug
- docs (plugins.md, vault.md, _config.yml, API.md) + 1.16.1 -> 1.17.0
Requires theta-suite >= v1.30.1 for the sso-broker secret/plugins/* grant;
fails-soft with a clear error if absent.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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